01The opportunity
The receipts don't stop. The deadline doesn't move.
Every month Turkish accountants and shop owners stare at the same pile of receipts — and type them by hand into a spreadsheet. Generic OCR was built for English office invoices; nobody else solves the Z report, KDV rate split, long Z merge trio.
Every month a Turkish accountant or shop owner stares at the same pile of crumpled till receipts, Z reports and supplier invoices — and types them by hand into a spreadsheet so the muhasebe software has something to chew on. The KDV deadline doesn't move. The paper doesn't stop. And generic OCR tools were written for English-language office invoices, not for thermal-printed Turkish receipts with %1, %10 and %20 KDV broken out, with bakkal handwriting on top.
The pain is concentrated: 1) receipts are physical and lossy, 2) the columns each business needs in Excel are not the same — some want a %20 KDV column split, some want a barcode field, some only want totals — and 3) the long Z reports printed in strips of paper need to be merged back into a single accounting row.